New Zealand · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Whataupoko.

January leads for comfortable weather in Whataupoko: typically 24.9°C by day, 13.7°C at night, with 65 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high24.9°C

Typical low13.7°C

Rain in January65 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · December

87climate match

Beach

January

January · February · December

58climate match

Outdoors

November

November · October · April

87climate match

The weakest month is July, scoring 30 against January’s 87 — days reach only 14.4°C, 10° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

8724.9° / 13.7°

Feb

8724.4° / 13.9°

Mar

7522.5° / 12°

Apr

6320° / 9.6°

May

5317.8° / 7.4°

Jun

3715.3° / 5.3°

Jul

3014.4° / 5°

Aug

4015.3° / 5.1°

Sep

5217.1° / 6.7°

Oct

6319.3° / 8.3°

Nov

7321° / 10.1°

Dec

8623.3° / 12.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Whataupoko — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	24.9°C	13.7°C	65 mm	6.7	18.9°C	14 h 35	87	Strong coverage
February	24.4°C	13.9°C	73 mm	8	19.8°C	13 h 37	87	Strong coverage
March	22.5°C	12°C	100 mm	9.2	19.4°C	12 h 27	75	Strong coverage
April	20°C	9.6°C	93 mm	9.4	18.2°C	11 h 08	63	Good coverage
May	17.8°C	7.4°C	83 mm	9.7	16.7°C	10 h 04	53	Good coverage
June	15.3°C	5.3°C	106 mm	10.4	15.1°C	9 h 29	37	Good coverage
July	14.4°C	5°C	124 mm	11.4	14.0°C	9 h 42	30	Good coverage
August	15.3°C	5.1°C	79 mm	10.5	13.5°C	10 h 38	40	Good coverage
September	17.1°C	6.7°C	75 mm	8.8	13.6°C	11 h 54	52	Strong coverage
October	19.3°C	8.3°C	71 mm	7.9	14.5°C	13 h 10	63	Strong coverage
November	21°C	10.1°C	60 mm	8.1	15.7°C	14 h 18	73	Strong coverage
December	23.3°C	12.6°C	61 mm	7.6	17.4°C	14 h 51	86	Strong coverage

What has changed

Whataupoko runs +0.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.5

Feb

+0.6

Mar

+0.1

Apr

+0.7

May

+1.1

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+0.9

Aug

+0.8

Sep

+0.5

Oct

+1.0

Nov

+0.5

Dec

+0.7

January daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 21.6°C.

Records at GISBORNE AERODROME, 1962–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	38.1°C11 Jan 1979	3.7°C1 Jan 1983	88 mm10 Jan 2023	252 mm2023 · driest 4 mm in 2017	63
February	36.6°C7 Feb 1973	3.6°C22 Feb 2003	79 mm27 Feb 2023	331 mm2023 · driest 14 mm in 2016	64
March	35.1°C10 Mar 1983	2.6°C21 Mar 1974	170 mm20 Mar 2012	308 mm2022 · driest 2 mm in 2002	64
April	28.5°C2 Apr 2017	0.5°C26 Apr 1997	60 mm5 Apr 2017	198 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 2002	64
May	26.1°C4 May 2002	-1.3°C26 May 1972	62 mm29 May 2017	180 mm2010 · driest 11 mm in 2007	64
June	23.2°C10 Jun 2016	-3.3°C11 Jun 1968	122 mm25 Jun 2024	239 mm2023 · driest 9 mm in 2002	64
July	21.7°C4 Jul 2025	-3.2°C18 Jul 1980	74 mm6 Jul 2010	230 mm2012 · driest 3 mm in 2001	64
August	22.6°C20 Aug 2022	-2.4°C4 Aug 1975	70 mm5 Aug 2014	211 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 2002	64
September	27.1°C21 Sep 2023	-1.1°C3 Sep 1982	114 mm21 Sep 2015	214 mm2022 · driest 1 mm in 2001	63
October	30.8°C29 Oct 1977	-0.6°C7 Oct 1965	122 mm22 Oct 2005	225 mm2005 · driest 3 mm in 1998	63
November	33.3°C23 Nov 2016	1.2°C21 Nov 1965	113 mm3 Nov 2021	289 mm2021 · driest 7 mm in 2009	63
December	34.5°C6 Dec 1970	2.9°C11 Dec 1997	58 mm25 Dec 2024	230 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 1981	63

Typical days per month at GISBORNE AERODROME, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	15	3	0	2
February	12	1	0	2
March	8	<1	0	2
April	1	0	0	2
May	0	0	0	2
June	0	0	<1	2
July	0	0	<1	3
August	0	0	<1	2
September	0	0	<1	2
October	<1	0	0	1
November	4	<1	0	1
December	10	<1	0	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was February (scoring 96); on 2011–2025 it is December (90). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in GISBORNE AERODROME’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	71%	23%	7%	26%	23.3–26.4°C
February	68%	28%	8%	30%	22.8–26.2°C
March	60%	30%	8%	38%	21.1–24.0°C
April	45%	30%	8%	43%	19.0–21.5°C
May	19%	31%	9%	43%	16.1–18.7°C
June	3%	36%	11%	51%	13.8–16.5°C
July	<1%	38%	11%	54%	13.3–15.3°C
August	2%	34%	7%	48%	13.9–16.2°C
September	17%	29%	8%	41%	15.4–18.4°C
October	39%	26%	5%	25%	17.7–20.6°C
November	53%	27%	6%	33%	19.9–22.9°C
December	65%	26%	6%	33%	21.7–24.7°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1963Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 56-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1993.2022

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 6240060
NOAA station: NZ000093292 · GISBORNE AERODROME
Station distance: 3.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude -38.65°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from GISBORNE AERODROME is what differs

Gisborne→Kaiti→Te Hapara→Mangapapa→Tamarau→Wainui→

Or put two places side by side: Whataupoko vs Gisborne

Best time to visitWhataupoko.

January

January

November

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Whataupoko runs +0.7°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Whataupoko.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Whataupoko runs +0.7°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.